An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions, 第 2 巻J. Murray, 1817 - 507 ページ |
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... actual loss were no more than these statements make it , a small increase of births would have easily repaired it ; but I should think that these estimates are probably as much below the truth , as Sir Francis d'Ivernois's are above ...
... actual loss were no more than these statements make it , a small increase of births would have easily repaired it ; but I should think that these estimates are probably as much below the truth , as Sir Francis d'Ivernois's are above ...
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... actual loss of men during the revolution , I never thought myself borne out by facts ; but the reader will be aware that I adopted them rather for the sake of illustration than from sup- posing them strictly true . c 2 according ...
... actual loss of men during the revolution , I never thought myself borne out by facts ; but the reader will be aware that I adopted them rather for the sake of illustration than from sup- posing them strictly true . c 2 according ...
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... actual loss of the 66 two millions and a half of men for whom " France mourns . It is not till a future 66 period that she will be able to estimate " this dreadful breach a . " And yet , if the foregoing reasonings are well - founded ...
... actual loss of the 66 two millions and a half of men for whom " France mourns . It is not till a future 66 period that she will be able to estimate " this dreadful breach a . " And yet , if the foregoing reasonings are well - founded ...
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... actual enumerations ; and without such positive data , the prevailing opinions on the subject of population , together with the necessary and universally acknowledged fact of a very considerable diminution in the males of a military age ...
... actual enumerations ; and without such positive data , the prevailing opinions on the subject of population , together with the necessary and universally acknowledged fact of a very considerable diminution in the males of a military age ...
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... actual enumera- tions , it should be adopted in preference . The returns published by the govern- ment in 1813 make the population of an- cient France 28,786,911 , which , compared with 28,000,000 , the estimated population of the year ...
... actual enumera- tions , it should be adopted in preference . The returns published by the govern- ment in 1813 make the population of an- cient France 28,786,911 , which , compared with 28,000,000 , the estimated population of the year ...
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337 ページ - Even when they have an opportunity of saving, they seldom exercise it ; but all that they earn beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale-house. The poor-laws may therefore be said to diminish both the power and the will to save among the common people; and thus to weaken one of the strongest incentives to sobriety and industry, and consequently to happiness.
341 ページ - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
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253 ページ - The irremediableness of marriage, as it is at present constituted, undoubtedly deters many from entering into this state. An unshackled intercourse on the contrary would be a most powerful incitement to early attachments; and as we are supposing no anxiety about the future support of children to exist, I do not conceive that there would be one -woman in a hundred, of twenty-three years of age, without a family.
250 ページ - Man cannot live in the midst of plenty. All cannot share alike the bounties of nature. Were there no established administration of property, every man would be obliged to guard with force his little store.
45 ページ - ... and sentiments with himself and used to the familiar intercourse of a society totally different from that to which she must be reduced by marriage. Can a man...
338 ページ - A man who might not be deterred from going to the ale-house from the consideration that on his death, or sickness, he should leave his wife and family upon the parish might yet hesitate in thus dissipating his earnings if he were assured that, in either of these cases, his family must starve or be left to the support of casual bounty.
335 ページ - ... support. Secondly, the quantity of provisions consumed in workhouses upon a part of the society that cannot, in general, be considered as the most valuable part diminishes the shares that would otherwise belong to more industrious and more worthy members, and thus in the same manner forces more to become dependent. If the poor in...
212 ページ - England, taking the highest proportion, it is as 117 to 100. Great and astonishing as this difference is, we ought not to be so wonderstruck at it, as to attribute it to the miraculous interposition of heaven. The causes of it are not remote, latent and mysterious; but near us, round about us, and open to the investigation of every inquiring mind.